Inhabiting the network. This week’s texts step up in scale to the conception of the role that the house occupies in a modern society. The (im)materiality of this conception is of particular interest, where Fuller saw the mass-produced unit, Antfarm saw the amorphous bubble, to Banham conceiving on the literal environment as a means of ordering the inhabitations of society. What I find fascinating of this proliferation of a house from a tied down (overly) materialized object is the possibility of an open source housing. One whose means of production and constraints allow not only for a person to decorate their living space, but to spatially define it. The possibilities of a similar process exponentially grows when these configural methods can become articulated quickly to instantaneously. Where a bubbles is dependent on its physical location on spaceship earth, I dream of an environment proliferated from time.
11.05.2015